mavkato

I love the design. We have a black cat named Edgar that has green eyes just like the picture. He is the friendliest cat I have ever seen. Every Halloween my wife gets excited about all the stuff with "Edgars" on it, and wants to buy them all. She also wants to adopt all of the little black kitties out there, and would if we had the space.

melfox86

I'm in the midst of adopting a kitten right now- and this shirt makes me drift toward the black ones! Regardless of what color cat, or even if you have a cat, this is wonderful. I would wear this all the time.

aunteah

reganrabbit wrote:didn't expect this one to do this poorly. I know there's a lot of stiff competition out there this week and I'm happy with how my other ones did, but in the spirit of betterment (it's a word), would any wooters like to offer thoughts?

Do people really hate gingers this much not to vote?!

Is it the blue shirt?

Too square a composition?

Thanks, each derby I think I get closer to figuring the voters out.

For me it was too much blue. Now typically I'm not a hater of blue, but somehow blue doesn't seem to be very Halloweeny to me.

kidwhitney

Nekkochan

melfox86 wrote:I'm in the midst of adopting a kitten right now- and this shirt makes me drift toward the black ones! Regardless of what color cat, or even if you have a cat, this is wonderful. I would wear this all the time.

Black cats have the best personalities! And remember, the world's best cat toy is another cat - take two, they're small!

Best black cat name ever, "Hoschech Mizraim," Hebrew for "the blackness of Egypt."

kenziepie

bpr2

icymallard wrote:Haha, these debates are quite inevitable. I remember when I first discovered shirt.woot and I saw a ramyb shirt I was like WOO! PUMPKINS! THATS CUTE and looks really good.

I bought a couple of them and i thought they were cute and wore them and sometimes people would comment and tell me they think the shirt is cute.

A couple months in, i started seeing a cute ramyb shirt just about every other week in the fog. I stopped buying them because I already owned shirts of similar style and cuteness. There really is no substance to these shirts beyond their extremely quick-to-please cutesy style. So i voted for other shirts i thought were clever and good looking in hopes that other wooters would like them too.

About 100-150 weeks in, I realized that if Ramyb submits a cute shirt.. the battle is over.

I'm not saying there's anything wrong with liking cute shirts and there certainly isn't anything wrong with submitting cute shirts for money; but it's just not the type of community i would like to be in.

I think the frustration for me isn't really with the money or the cutesy shirts, its just that when competing against a shirt of Ramyb's cutesy caliber, there is no chance. It feels as if we are discouraging artists' creativity with the popularity of such shirts.

Again, I think Rogerrogerroger is more of the type of design I'd like to wear at the moment, but in no way do I expect most wooters to agree with me.

But I think there is a lot of evidence to say this shirt required little thought of concept and I like my shirts and artists to have cleverness/depth.

I hope maybe my perspective is something I conveyed accurately. I am not going on the offensive here.

deltax20a

SJulian1 wrote:Voting for something you like and want to buy is fine. But there is a substantial amount of Ramyb voters that only give him support to watch people flip out over his designs being printed, and they do so with no intention of actually purchasing the shirt. I don't think as many of Ramyb's shirts would be printed, if such people weren't voting.

My opinion is two-fold, being a veteran shirt.woot member with a very /large/ collection of shirts from probably a dozen artists, I can understand those who are frustrated by Ramy's success and how they perceive shirt.woot members to be small-minded when it comes to simply voting up cute designs to sell, but that's simply not true. Ramy isn't the only artist to sell "cute" designs, and actually I can think of at least five or six artists that draw similar styles and sell very well. But there are also other artists that draw different styles that also sell well, and the rules change each week to give these folks a level field and a chance to make a good design. My presence here is simply a vote and ten bucks, I'm not an artist, I have no talent for what these people do, unless the next derby is "Photoshop Creations" you won't see my name in there, so cut these folks a little bit of slack when it comes to putting out designs you might like and you might want to buy.

That said though, I really would have liked to see something else come from your entry this week Ramy.It's not the style for me here, it's that we've all seen Monty Python and the Holy Grail a hundred times, you could have dug deeper after that rejection. (which I'm not sure why that was rejected?) Plenty of other Haloween-related material to choose from.

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